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by netsp 17y ago
I think you have crossed to arguing about words. What do you mean innovation.
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by netsp 17y ago
People like things.
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not sure it could. That is, it would sell some at many ranges because it's unique. But I do think price sensitivity will be huge here. In other words, I am guessing every dollar they knock off the price tag will mean a big difference in
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by netsp 17y ago
I think that there may be floodgates open if the right keys go in the right locks. One problematic issue is accreditation/validation. Part of the reason vocational training is so different is because of this. This could work for a wide rang
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by netsp 17y ago
A lot of what I do revolves around online advertising. Some things, such as redesigning sites & the like (which is also really a form of online advertising) have softened a little. Things like Adwords have gone sideways: Some reducing s
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by netsp 17y ago
You seem to assume this is a win/lose game rather then (as the article suggests) a huge market that can be split into slices.
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by netsp 17y ago
Exactly. I don't expect any wins to come because just Linux is cheaper . It needs to be better or easier in some ways. Better battery life. More complete out of the box. Something like that. It can if it makes the net books cheaper by ru
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by netsp 17y ago
Well somebody needs to build a platform for learning to program.
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AppJet's free hosting (AppJet 1.0) being discontinued(appjet.com)
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by netsp 17y ago
I think you have to look at this comparatively though. The number of rich people is by definition small. To make a comparison worth anything at all is a problem. While you might or might not like thinking of VCs as a filter, they do perform
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by netsp 17y ago
Are you sure that's a good way of deciding? To take investment you need to be able to convince someone that yours is a good investment. Your pool of people that could have done this at some point may be heavily weighted towards those tat
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by netsp 17y ago
For me, I find them useful. In many cases, the ads are what I want. When I think about it, I often phrase my search term in a way that will bring up the ads I want. It's sort of semi-conscious. I am probably a bad example though because I a
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by netsp 17y ago
Marxism and YEC have about the same level of validity OK, but your reasoning is still flawed. There is an all-out, bitter war going on between property (connections, inherited wealth, resources) and energy (talent, ambition, hard work)
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by netsp 17y ago
I think one class of mistake we are going to hear all the time is that arguments from music applied to ebooks. One example is the case for against copyright protection for authors.
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by netsp 17y ago
I still think you're reading me backwards. I'm not recommending not going to University. Say I thought that blogging could be easier 5 years ago. It would not be easier to build an easier blogging engine. It would be easier to just use wh
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by netsp 17y ago
Should?
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by netsp 17y ago
Sounds suspiciously like Marxism. Is that a reason to dismiss? This may be a stumble on an idea that Marx would agree with, but noone is asking you to accept marxism wholesale. 'Sounds suspiciously like..', is a defensive way of thinking.
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by netsp 17y ago
Microsoft's goal is to keep you in their ecosystem, Google's goal is to sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder. Here's a thought. Msft know their goal: Keep you in their ecosystem. This has been their goal forever. The market for OS/Off
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by netsp 17y ago
It also worked before they had an OS monopoly. After all, that's how they got their monopoly.
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not saying that these are not important or easily achievable outside of Universities. I am saying maybe they could be. IE, maybe someone can come up with a way of creating the networks & whatever else is important without being a un
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think we do really. Just against the name and against the professions that use vocational schools intensively. The medicine path is very similar to the electrician path. Medical school is vocational school. We have nothing against t
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by netsp 17y ago
Possibly, but this needn't affect those studying history. I listen to this economist podcast here & there. Recently, they were talking about how strange it is that they need any kind of qualifications to do the thing that they get paid
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by netsp 17y ago
I suspect that the strongest thing holding all those aspects together is convention. I think the institution is very entrenched in the US. maybe the place for innovation is outside. In Israel (where I am from), a lot of people do go to war
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm still hoping for some sort of disruption that will change the game. The line of thinking is along these lines: The core of what elite colleges (or any colleges) is not really valuable. A university course is mostly a syllabus, a textboo
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by netsp 17y ago
Paypal is a back-end company. They haven't been able to (a) build a user experience that users really feel confident with. (b) find and fix all sorts of other problems their users might have. I think b, while not a problem is the real issue
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by netsp 17y ago
Noise is also what you are not used to seeing. Yahoo!'s loho & drop down boxes & hints seem a lot more noisy. I think part of it is because they are. But part of it is because unfamiliar is noisier then familiar.
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by netsp 17y ago
On a slightly more serious note, a good playground for developing thses kinds of things might be products for developing countries. Specifically, those parts that are not on grids. A lot of things you make must be cheap, must have own power
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by netsp 17y ago
Thanks for jumping in. Welcome. I hope I haven't come across as critical at your expense. I was very intrigued by your project and I read the site more or less cover to cover. The house is very beautiful. I also agree with much of what you
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by netsp 17y ago
1 - Dropbox.com is obviously not dropbox mistaken users will go to Google. 2 - Dropbox isn't really a site. It's more something you install on your machine. I use dropbox and I don't remember knowing that it isn't on dropbox.com 3 - It pr
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by netsp 17y ago
A less weasely example might be the company simply deciding to take a loss or very low margin at low volumes to enable faster growth. That might make sense for them because they have an open ended upside. It doesn't for whoever makes a cut.

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